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Published: 2010-06-18 01:10:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 2187; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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I don't think there was a more beautiful car to end the 1960's and start the 70's than the Pontiac Grand Prix. The long hood, the massive chrome bumper, factory mag wheels all combined to make a true classic.This is an illustration of a 1970 Grand Prix Model J that my friend Bobby Vincent had when we were in high school. It had a few miles on it, but man that car was sweet! It was strange too, a luxury muscle car! It had the longest hood I ever saw on a car, but it needed to be long to house a 370 hp 455 Cubic Inch V8 with an astounding 500 ft-lbs of torque at 3100 rpm! Wicked fast off the line, but cruising the highways, she was really in her element, this baby could roll! It was almost like flying. It had almost everything you could want in a car.
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Beautiful artwork, and I like the addition of the hood ornament too! A neighbor of mine has one of those, except his is gold.
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Thanks, it was a great car!
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Very nice job ! I love Pontiac's. My Grand Mother had a '70 Grand Prix. It was blue. I'm working on a 1976 Chevy Monza Spyder. It was my first car that I repurchased. It's white with red interior. Let me know how you'd want. I would be interested in seeing your work and my car.
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They were great cars! I haven't been doing much vector art these day. Concentrating on my photography.
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YD: GREAT pic and description! Yeah, it was like a BOAT on the HIGHWAY ... A HIGH speed one! GRINS.
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Thanks! Yeah, they were cool cars.
-YD
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Love those Grand Prixs... There's something about 60's and 70's Pontiacs I really love. They're kinda neoclassic, but not... I think the Grand Prix is my favourite from the period though.
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Thanks Craig! When you think of the Pontiac of the era, there were some legends, Firebird, Le Mans, GTO, Bonneville... and the Grand Prix. My friend who had the Gran Prix also had a '65 GTO convertible, all jacked up with air shocks, traction bars, mag wheels and glass packs. The darn thing was always going down hill it was jacked up so high!
-YD
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I preferred Mustangs; I had a '67 289, four-barrel, four-speed stick, limited slip. I kept it light, no air-conditioning, not even a radio. Though I did have the folding rear seatback for full passthrough to the trunk. I had the fastback [2+2] GT, with Firestone 500 Wide-Oval tires, which as far as I know, were the first of the wide non 1-to-1 height to width tires on the street. They were 70 percent, not so extreme as current ratios. Very thin treads for light weight. My back ones had to be replaced after 14,000 miles. It was a really good car, which I kept for nine years, IIRC. It was my second car. The first one I foolishly kept for only two years. I wish I still had both of them.
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I had a soft spot in my heart for those first generation Mustangs. I think the '67 2+2 was the ultimate Mustang. I think it was the genesis for the current retro Mustangs. IMO, Mustang lost their design edge with the Mustang II and it continued into the 3rd and 4th Generations, but now they've got their Mojo back. I got to drive a '08 rental for a week and loved it! My daughter was sad when I returned the "Cool Car" as she called it. I have to say, tooling around town in a cherry red Mustang, people look at you differently and even with a V6, it had plenty of get up and go!
-YD
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Hm... with a V6, there would be plenty of room in there for a Rootes type [GMC built of lot of copies] supercharger.
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Thanks! They were cool machines.
-YD
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"12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of american pride!"
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Ain't that the truth!
-YD
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Yep, I'm thinking that was the beginning of the end of that era.
-YD
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I hate the car, but have to say good job on the illustration. I think the grand prix was one of the worst designs hehe. My fav was the 70' mustang boss 302.
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LOL! Thanks Jim! I personally would have gone with the 1969 Kiser-Willys CJ-5 with the Buick 225 cu in (3.7 L) V6 Dauntless or a Wagoneer! 
Getting back to the Mustang, it wasn't in the same class of cars as the GP, but no doubt about the Mustang being a beautiful machine, that was in end of the 1st generation Mustangs, always my favorite era of Mustangs. I'd have gone with the 1969 Boss 429 Cobra Jet!
-YD
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